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MeTa post:
Hey, Will, Welcome ...
I've read and liked at least three of the authors in 'the Scribblies', and now I'm motivated to check out the others. Oh, and welcome to metafilter along with whomever else joined this week.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 6:40 PM on July 21, 2008
Thanks JaredSeth, I'd forgotten I'd read 'Cats have no lord' (not because it wasn't good).
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 12:57 AM on July 22, 2008
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 8:29 PM on July 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Spam from a MeFi user.
Maybe new users should have a restriction on using MefiMail until a certain contribution amount is reached like posting on the front page?
I can see drawbacks to that. A limit on mefi-mail capability to 2 a day or something until the account has been active for a few months might work.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 5:55 PM on July 16, 2008
*MefiMails msconduct a low low price subscription offer to pretend pen pal*
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 5:56 PM on July 16, 2008
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posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 8:07 PM on July 17, 2008
Scrapple extends westward from philly at least as far as Ohio, where the weirdos put ketchup on it.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 8:08 PM on July 17, 2008
MeTa post:
I c*nt stop saying twat.
If flagging is for pulling comments, I'm not sure I want comments pulled for using that term unless it is clearly directed at a female in a misogynist or hateful fashion. Generally I read the word with the most charitable interpretation as Skorgu says, and no one comment with cunt or twat in it is going to bug me, but when it becomes a general theme in a thread I'm not thrilled by it. More because of the intellectual laziness that such dismissiveness seems to engender, but... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 12:50 PM on July 9, 2008
"there's a predictable backlash from UK folks thinking we're being excessively nannying with not particularly offensive language"
This is a culture clash more than anything, which is why I didn't cite comments by individual members.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 12:59 PM on July 9, 2008
BorgLove, I've said things in my life that are so offensive that my mother would throw up if she heard them, my standards of linguistic tolerance are pretty high. But I'm sensitive to the context of when I'm saying something offensive. Pedophile and rape jokes around friends, clean language in front of my parents, and a mix online. Reread my post, I'm not looking to santion anyone, cheesy as it may be, this is an educational effort.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:07 PM on July 9, 2008
*sanction* rather.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:12 PM on July 9, 2008
Let me come at this from a different angle. I just found out that saying "untouchable" has become the equivalent to the n* word (no I'm not talking about Narnia) in India. I had a friend tell me that, and I didn't immediately assume he was jumping all over my shit, or even that he was particularly offended. I thanked him profusely, because I don't want to get my ass kicked someday by a bunch of Indian guys who think I'm disrespecting them. Friends tell each other when words they... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:27 PM on July 9, 2008
Nevercalm, except that nigger has been partially reclaimed into the black and pop culture vernacular. Which to my mind makes it a lot less loaded than it was in the 1970s. It's all context however. When I speak of offensiveness, I'm meaning gut reaction to the word before context comes into it. Words alone mean nothing, but the hateful intent with which they are used are what you remember when you hear them again, especially in the case of words that you never hear without hateful intent.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:48 PM on July 9, 2008
ArtW, I knew it would be contentious, I actually expected a lot more vitriol. This is a much better result than I expected.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:49 PM on July 9, 2008
Brandon, that particular asterisk was used more to preserve the cunt/cant pun than anything. Also to keep the word off of the RSS feed. After more inside I stopped bowdlerizing.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:53 PM on July 9, 2008
ArtW, What answer? There isn't a question on the table as far as I know.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:02 PM on July 9, 2008
Ambrosia Voyeur, reasonably freshly coined slur: "breeder". I particularly hate it when I get called that, but mostly because I got a vasectomy in my early twenties.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:05 PM on July 9, 2008
but walk (as a white guy) into the neighborhood that generated this whole discussion and call someone a nigger, and see how fast you become part of the sidewalk.
This reminds me of a funny story when a white friend of mine was walking through East Palo Alto and pointed out a raccoon to his girlfriend while shouting out coon. He had to talk fast after that to avoid a beatdown. Eh, guess you had to be there.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:15 PM on July 9, 2008
Jack_mo, take that back you baby sodomizing, mother fisting, tardfucking, anal pustule or I might have to break out the mildly offensive stuff.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:25 PM on July 9, 2008
Artw, I've not really seen bee-hatch, bee-atch or bee-otch sometimes, but bee-hatch, not so much.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:29 PM on July 9, 2008
Jack_mo, I'm laughing right now, so I guess you won. I'll concede later after I have time to look those terms up. Back to work.
Brandon, since I share that loathing for bowdlerizing, albeit to a lesser extent, please accept my apology. Although I'll carve out an exception for using it ironically with the word anus.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:02 PM on July 9, 2008
I have to say I'm proud to be a member of Metafilter given the responses here. I was expecting a lot of "CENSORSHIP CENSORSHIP YOU CANT MAKE ME STOP SAYING CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT". It's refreshing that no one got all defensive about it.
As for the refrain that bringing this up is not going to change anything, I suspect that at least a few people will refrain from using cunt and twat without at least clarifying the meaning, or making sure that it is not... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 6:47 PM on July 9, 2008
Orthogonality, I like to say I don't like imposed censorship, but I suspect when reading metafilter I'm actually benefitting from its judicious application (at least as far as blog spam). As far as I'm concerned the ability to censor myself is a tremendous gift (when it's motivated by courtesy rather than fear).
I met a guy once, and the first thing out of his mouth was "Hey man, I'm going to kill you." I thought I was about to get in the fight of my life,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 7:05 PM on July 9, 2008
picked up the delightfully robust phrase "Fucking the dog" as a substitute for the more common "slacking off"
A friend's Brit buddy visiting over here said "I'm going to knock up your sister", which in America means to get a girl pregnant. Good times.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 10:38 PM on July 9, 2008
Peter, thanks for dropping in. I wasn't trying to single you out with this callout, and your cuntbroker comment was taken by me in the spirit you intended (I think). I've just been seeing cunt around a bit lately, and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the American context. For the record, I did not flag your comment. Not that I'll never flag a comment for using a word I find offensive, but it is all in the context.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:28 AM on July 10, 2008
LiveLurker, while I agree that the intent is the more important element, if you accidentally posted a pedophile joke into a forum thread about a missing child, the context would be pretty important too.
Spit bombing? Is that like snowballing? I'm lost.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:17 AM on July 10, 2008
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the search totals don't include pulled comments, so I'm not sure how useful numbers are.
ArtW, your point about twat (and shame). A big part of the reason I opened this here was because it seemed like the pink superhero's request to use twat less in that thread provoked a storm of twat usage. If that was a nervous defensive reaction "you cant censor me TWAT TWAT TWAT", then I think a little shame is appropriate. If it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:51 PM on July 10, 2008
Also, I had a huge comment that I was working on that Cortex totally deflated with his much better response. (drongo indeed)
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:53 PM on July 10, 2008
As for locality, I've been making an effort lately to say American in place of our, etc... Which has prompted people to assume I'm from the UK. I guess somewhat proving the YANKZONE point.
I think confusing a call to self-censor with actual censorship loses one the right to call anyone oversensitive about language, and when taken to extremes of defensiveness makes one look immature. On the other hand this thread seems to have drifted pretty far from where I intended,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 4:02 PM on July 10, 2008
Artw, I'd love to see a USIAN thread, and I'm glad it's not going to be immediately. Because I've read all 400+ comments in this one (some multiple times), and my eyes are starting to glaze over.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 4:49 PM on July 10, 2008
Artw, "look a bit of a twat" is such a non-American construction that we'd immediately think foreign context.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 5:20 PM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
It's is not the possessive form of it.
Hey Daddy-O, you missed an usage. When you have several awards from the American Psychological Society, you can cram them up your ass. Oh wait, you weren't talking about APOS trophies. Actually, your post didn't annoy me that much, I just like kicking someone when they are down.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:41 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
We'll build our house and chop our wood
Oh crap, the secret inner cabal of metafilter let slip the plan to bring everything except the best of the web under metafilter subdomains to invert the whole Internet. Now we need a doubly secret innermost cabal (not on probation).
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:11 AM on July 4, 2008
Oh, and I'd read about gardening even though I have a greenwilting thumb.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 2:12 AM on July 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Memorial fund?
I'd consider donating to an already established charity in Brooke Bennett's name such as PCAVT, or anything appropriate. If you want to recommend one, great. I'm not very fond of event reaction charities though, too much duplicate effort is involved in creating a new charity every time something happens.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 9:30 PM on July 2, 2008
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont promotes and supports healthy relationships between children and the people who care for them in order to eliminate child abuse.
Contribution page with paypal link.
I am not affiliated with this charity, and aside from looking up their 990 on guidestar.org, and looking at their website I know nothing about them. Although I will be donating to them later today (when I find my stupid paypal security... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 6:30 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Thread pagination +500 comments
because I joined before the fee started
Rub it in grumblebee-otch, rub it in.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 9:55 PM on July 1, 2008
Grumblebee, I'm glad that you recognized that I was joking, and I apologize for abusing your screen name.
I don't fetishize early membership, but I was a locked out lurker here when it seemed like new memberships were closed forever. Also, $5 is a ridiculously small bar, but I think it kept me off the site for a year or two more until I saw a post where I just had to comment. Also, if I had had foreknowledge of the $5 fee, I'd have signed up like six sockpuppets.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:50 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Ugh, all RIGHT, mom, I get it.
Parroting opinion answers that I agree with makes more sense to me than not doing so. My pet peeve is people parroting factual answers that have adequate citation.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 7:35 PM on July 1, 2008
MeTa post:
First things first.
What if you have a lot of links that are strongest punching? I'm going to start using ratings to indicate the relative punch of links. Three exclamation points for the most important link, going down to one for barely worth clicking on. While I'm at it, if you see an i dotted with a heart, that means that I'm linking to something cute. I'm still working out which symbols to use for NSFW, and for linking to a picture of something with no face.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:24 AM on June 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Account Closing Protocol
Ambrosia Voyeur, I think it is out of date. I just calculated ArtW's contribution index on the form (he's making 1 a day posts lately), it spat out 5.42, but I don't see him on the list.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:03 PM on June 27, 2008
Whoa, now he is there. Does it only refresh when someone does a calculation or am I thick enough to have missed him?
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:04 PM on June 27, 2008
